Betrayal

Betrayal

I fear the blitz and coldness of your eyes,

Once filled with tenderness and empathy,

What torment bring you with your worthless lies,

Pray tell me, why have all that enmity.

Your soul is scarred; forgive me for the pain,

Backstabbing blows have pierced your gentle heart,

I saw those tears that you could not contain,

I saw the trust that broke and could not start.

Why torment self in hardship and in vain,

There is no fault in fear nor is there flaw,

Remember, friend, though be your spirit slain,

Not all betray – it is their fate to draw.

There is no pride in bearing truths alone,

Have faith, my friend − no life is made to mourn.

By Valentina C.

Jazz

Jazz

Miles Davis (1926 – 1191) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He is often described as one of the most influential musicians of the 20^th century, especially for his contribution into the Bebop style – a style of jazz characterized by its fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies and rhythm sections – and the Cool. The Cool is a post-war style of jazz that is mostly defined by its more relaxed tempos, lighter tone and subdued approach than that of Bebop, which preceded it. Davis was known to play with John Coltrane (1926 – 1967) and Thelonious Monk (1917 – 1982), who both also inputted greatly into the Bebop style. Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, active mostly in the 50s and 60s. He was influenced greatly by religion and spirituality which is seen in many of his compositions. Thelonious Monk was a jazz pianist, known for his individual improvisation style and dissonant harmonies, which all contributed to him being seen at times as the ‘unorthodox pianist’. His years of activity range from the 1940s and up to 1973 all over the USA with significant contracts with Riverside and Columbia Records. Buddy Rich (1917 – 1987) was also a famous American jazz musician. He was primarily a drummer and composer in the Big-Band Swing style – a jazz style originating in the late 1920s as a “big band”, a musical ensemble with 12-15 musicians with a range of woodwind, rhythm and brass instruments, that played compositions that founded themselves in a strong rhythm section that was the lead for a range of woodwind and brass instruments that were used to produce a medium to high tempo and a “lilting” swing rhythm − over the 20^th century and up to his death. Dixieland is also a major jazz style. It was an early type of jazz developed in the New Orleans at the start of the 20^th century that migrated to New York and Chicago in the 1910s. It is based on a mixture of ragtime and blues motives that came about as a mixture of woodwind melodies, banjo and piano rhythms and a drum time-keeper and base-player. It is defined by its collective improvisation, dramatic effects and simple harmonies.   

Back Again

Ok, I know I seid I m leaving, but... I think I will continue, maybe not as often, but to sometimes add new articles. I have quite a bit of them now, so here you are!

Good Bye

This is it. I am moving to London, so this is my last message. Good Bye.

TV

TV – There is a bad side...

Mostly we only think of the TV to have only a good side. It is entertaining, educating and familiar. It is interesting and inspiring for all. But….is it really?

Every coin has two faces, so does the true identity of our beloved telly. Television is addictive and none can say no to that simple fact.  It plays with our feelings, making us see and feel a certain way. It gains our trust – becomes our closest friend and there is no way we can misjudge that fact.  In childhood it’s a parent, then a sibling and after that a friend. It is dominant in our lives, as it affects our point of view and how we live. It takes up our time, so we can wonder afterwards where it had gone. It is specifically made for our entertainment and our use.

Statistically speaking, though it varies from person to person, every average human in America watches television about four hours a day. Thus, truly, it places high stakes in our lives. 99% of Americans own at least one TV and about 250 billion hours a year are spent by watching telly. And that is only one country! Think about it globally and the numbers grow sky-high. I even bet there are at least 100 people watching TV right this second!

Television plays a great role in our life, but not only it ruins our moral stability, it also ruins our eyesight. Millions of people have eyesight problems just because of too much television. Don’t be surprised if you thought the cause to be not enough carrot, telly has grown to be such a part of our daily lives that it seems that we forgot to doubt it.

Though I just said that we do not doubt it, many people understand that they watch it for no reason. Have you ever switched on the TV to find yourself thinking that what is on the screen is rubbish. Even news sometimes will make us wince. Informative? Bah! Don’t make me laugh. News is made by the government to spoon-feed us the information that they want us to see and not the truth. Find out about it for yourself! Talk to the real spectators! Do not just your mind be brainwashed by those fools! Maybe you think it’s too much work. Or that you can decipher truth from lies. Unfortunately, you can’t.

TV is specifically made to brainwash us, to make see things only from one point of view. Television is just a machine, for goodness sake! It cannot judge the truth from the lies. That we must do ourselves.

Our television cannot be our family of friend. Though the faces inside are so familiar – you do not know them, you just see their shadow on the screen, you just see a memory. It is not real. So I must ask you, why are you reading this? Go watch some TV.